Drumclieve
Drumclieve is a townland in the civil parish of Templenoe, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Drom Cliabh.
- Area
- 159.5 ha
- 394 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 92,044 m² (9.2 ha, 22.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumclieve, from 2,105 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 700,218 m² (70.02 ha, 173.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumclieve in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Jan 2026Conditional
the construction of a calf shed extension and all associated site works. PERMISSION FOR RETENTION of overground slurry tower is also required
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660049
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumclieve.
Recorded monuments
- TS059-112002 Enclosure
Description
In improved pasture, on a W-facing slope. The surface is uneven across this area of field, but there are no discernible features at ground level. The monument is depicted on latest (1904) ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 22m). It is visible on an aerial photograph (CUCAP APA 18, 13/07/1966) as extant, enclosed by mature trees, but is not visible on a later aerial photograph (ASIAP (333) 35, 05-10-2002). According to local information, monuments in this area were levelled as part of land improvements undertaken in 1984-5. This enclosure is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS059-115 Enclosure
Description
In improved, rolling pasture, on an elevated area of field. Depicted on the 1st (1840) edition OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (dims c. 40m NE-SW; c. 35m NW-SE) and on the 1904 edition only the southern arc from E-WSW is shown with what appears to be a pond at the base of the bank in the SSE. The southern arc is visible on an aerial photograph (GSI R.437/6, 16/04/1974). The remains of the enclosure were possibly levelled during land improvements c. 1984-5 (local information). It is not visible above ground. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS059-116 Enclosure
Description
In improved, rolling pasture, on an elevated area. Remains of circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by a low bank (Wth 6.25m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.15m) N-NNE and traces of scarp (Wth 2.5m; H 0.15m) NNE-SE. A townland boundary respects the monument from SE-W. It is visible on an aerial photograph (GSI R.514/13, 16/04/1974) as a circular enclosure. It was possibly levelled during land improvements c. 1984-5 (local information) and is defined only by a field boundary SE-W on a recent aerial photograph (ASIAP (116) 23 & 24; ASIAP (117)18). There is a ringfort (TS059-117----) c. 70m to the SE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS059-118 Enclosure
Description
In improved pasture, on a S-facing slope with excellent views of the Galtee Mountains. A large sub-oval area (dims. 73m NNW-SSE; 60m ENE-WSW) with rounded corners, defined by a bank (Wth 6.35m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.3m) NE-ESE which is reduced to scarp (Wth 5.75m; H 0.8m) ESE-NE and an external fosse (Wth 7.4-8.5m; D 0.15-0.2m) from SW-SE. The denuded bank is composed of gravel. The interior is uneven on the surface and slopes down gently to the S. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumclieve.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Drumclieve, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumclieve.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumclieve with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Drumclieve · Drom Cliabh
- Area
- 1,595,099 m² (159.51 ha, 394.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templenoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Kilfeakle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 500 people lived in 175 households in the Kilfeakle electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhusty, Camea, Friarsfield, Kilfeakle, Moatabulcane, Templenoe
- Placenames
- Drumclieve on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.